Subject: Vfat disk
From: Peter Q. Olsson (olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 13:56:20 AKDT
Hello all-
I recently purchased a usb disk ~170 Meg, that I use as a quasi-portable storage
unit. It came formatted as a vfat file system. I have thus far not reformatted
it since vfat lets me work w/ both Linux and Windoz platforms.
Problem is, I cannot change possession and/or file attributes (chown/chmod) on
this file system. So... only root can write to it. Kind of cumbersome, to say
the least. Is this just inherent for vfat FS's within the linux paridigm?
PQO
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| Chief Scientist, Alaska Experimental Forecast Facility |
| University of Alaska Anchorage |
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| Anchorage, AK 99501 |
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